189 (Bray Valley) TRYFAN

Delivered
Gauge
10¼"
Prototype class
Outline
Narrow Gauge
Wheel arrangement
4-4-2
Cylinder arrangement
Locomotive type
Tank
Motive power
Steam
Comments

Bray Valley has had a long and complicated life. It was originally built as a 7.25" gauge locomitive for the Stirling family's proposed tourist railway on Exmoor, but after a last minute change to the much bigger 12.25" gauge, it was hastily widenedn and regauged 10 12.25". Beneath the skin, of course, it was still fundamentally a little engine, and not really powerful enough, so it was regauged back to 10.25" and sold to a private owner in Wales

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